Author: Édouard Amand Isidore Hippolyte LartetPublisher:
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Category : Aquitaine
Languages : en
Pages : 726
Book Description
Reliquiae Aquitanicae
Author: LartetReliquiæ Aquitanicæ
Author: Édouard Amand Isidore Hippolyte LartetPublisher:
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Category : Aquitaine
Languages : en
Pages : 726
Book Description
Painted Caves
Author: Andrew J. LawsonPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199698228
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
Written from an archaeological perspective, Painted Caves is a beautifully illustrated introduction to the oldest art of Western Europe: the very ancient paintings found in caves. Lawson offers an up to date overview of the geographical distribution of the sites and their significance within the varied network of Palaeolithic art.
Bones and Ochre
Author: Marianne SommerPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674024991
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
When ochre-stained bones were unearthed by William Buckland in a Welsh cave in 1823, they raised many unsettling questions regarding their origin, and inspired the casting and recasting of the character who became known as the Red Lady. Her biography reflects the personal, professional, and national ambitions of those who studied her.
The Cave of Fontéchevade
Author: Philip G. ChasePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521898447
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Summary of recent Paleolithic excavations at Fontéchevade, France, and their archaeological and paleontological implications.
The Diagrammatics of ‘Race’
Author: Marianne SommerPublisher: Open Book Publishers
ISBN: 1805112635
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
This is the first book that engages with the history of diagrams in physical, evolutionary, and genetic anthropology. Since their establishment as scientific tools for classification in the eighteenth century, diagrams have been used to determine but also to deny kinship between human groups. In nineteenth-century craniometry, they were omnipresent in attempts to standardize measurements on skulls for hierarchical categorization. In particular the ’human family tree’ was central for evolutionary understandings of human diversity, being used on both sides of debates about whether humans constitute different species well into the twentieth century. With recent advances in (ancient) DNA analyses, the tree diagram has become more contested than ever―does human relatedness take the shape of a network? Are human individual genomes mosaics made up of different ancestries? Sommer examines the epistemic and political role of these visual representations in the history of ‘race’ as an anthropological category. How do such diagrams relate to imperial and (post-)colonial practices and ideologies but also to liberal and humanist concerns? The Diagrammatics of 'Race' concentrates on Western projects from the late 1700s into the present to diagrammatically define humanity, subdividing and ordering it, including the concomitant endeavors to acquire representative samples―bones, blood, or DNA―from all over the world. Contributing to the ‘diagrammatic turn’ in the humanities and social sciences, it reveals connections between diagrams in anthropology and other visual traditions, including in religion, linguistics, biology, genealogy, breeding, and eugenics.
Catalogue
Author: Bernard Quaritch (Firm)Publisher:
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Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 998
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The Pleistocene Old World
Author: Olga SofferPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1461318173
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
Regional approaches to past human adaptations have generated much new knowledge and understanding. Researchers working on problems of adaptations in the Holocene, from those of simple hunter-gatherers to those of complex sociopolitical entities like the state, have found this approach suitable for comprehension of both ecological and social aspects of human behavior. This research focus has, however, until recently left virtually un touched a major spatial and temporaI segment of prehistory-the Old World during the Pleistocene. Extant literature on this period, by and large, presents either detailed site speeific accounts or offers continental or even global syntheses that tend to compile site speeific information but do not integrate it into whole c~nstructs of funetioning so ciocuhural entities. This volume presents our current state of knowledge about a variety of regional adaptations that charaeterized prehistoric groups in the Old World before 10,000 B. P. The authors of the chapters consider the behavior of humans rather than that of objects or features and present data and models for variaus aspects of past cultures and for culture change. These presentations integrate findings and understandings derived from a number of related disciplines actively involved in researching the past. Data and interpretations are offered on a range of Old \yorld regions during the PaIeolithic, induding Africa, Asia, Australia, and Europe, and chronological coverage spans from the Early to Late PIeisto cene.
Man, Past and Present
Author: A. H. KeanePublisher: Good Press
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 521
Book Description
The text of this book very much reflects the times in which it was written, namely the colonial times. It was published in 1920 and orders humanity by racial categorisation and classification. The culture, geographical location, physiology and temperament are used to come to conclusions about the innate characteristics of the subject group. It will be of great interest to those studying the anthropology of the colonial period.
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